Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later that day Mr Brownlow came in , having heard that the boy was a little better at last . |
| 2 | As for the game against Arsenal ; it 's hard to tell not having seen it or heard a radio commentary , but it looks like we 're continuing on nicely from last year : - ( |
| 3 | But , as she demonstrated so memorably in last year 's auspicious Prom performance , it holds no terrors for the young soprano Galina Gorchakova , who gives a performance of thrilling virtuosity and commitment . |
| 4 | the supporters who had exercised such decorum for so long at last gave vent to their true feelings . |
| 5 | Very few people are surprised by the merger , but many were taken aback that it happened so soon after last year 's franchise battle . |
| 6 | A spokesman for Ford said : ‘ We had hoped that lower interest rates and the Budget would help , but we reckon now that sales will be only slightly above last year 's levels . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Aha , ’ said Bob , twinkling at her , ‘ so now at last we come to it . |
| 8 | So here at last , this point at which I stood , was the very place , the geophysical start-line at which two of the world 's great geologic plates met . |
| 9 | Into the Blue won the first ever W H Smith thumping good read award , so maybe at last this compelling writer will get the recognition he so deserves . |
| 10 | But Everton must not look back , not even to last week 's defeat against Manchester City . |
| 11 | Since discourse unfolds in time , it seems natural that time-deictic words can be used to refer to portions of the discourse ; thus analogously to last week and next Thursday , we have in the last paragraph and in the next Chapter . |
| 12 | ‘ Orders processed for next Christmas are comfortably ahead of last year with both agent numbers and customer spend showing healthy increases . ’ |
| 13 | But people were popping off again like last year . |
| 14 | Got a load of it , still upstairs from last year , . |
| 15 | Cardboard box seemed to hold up well to last night 's storm . |
| 16 | I 'd hate for him to be stuck up there for last week in March |
| 17 | Our sales will actually be slightly ahead of last year , which in itself was a record year , and the termination rate will be no higher than last year . |
| 18 | Profits in the UK are also ahead of last year 's , Graham says , although again no figures were available . |
| 19 | But Haig , though by now probably at last disabused as to the prospect of a decisive breakthrough , persisted in gaining his objective : the high ground around the village of Passchendaele . |
| 20 | Now that I 'm back here at last , sitting on my two boxes with the heap of riddled typescript in my hands , I feel soothed and slowed . |
| 21 | Among the flowers that did really well in last year 's hot summer were alyssum , geraniums and petunias . |
| 22 | So he said alright so he come in and had his dinner so he said I said we ought to be going this week for a ride out instead of last week . |
| 23 | ‘ I canna' come any farther , Dick , ’ Sheila called out softly at last , reaching the end of the rope . |
| 24 | It begins auspiciously with Purcell 's sacred aria The Blessed Virgin 's Expostulation , not available elsewhere , but back again at last and doubly valuable because it is handled so beautifully . |
| 25 | Well so in last week and this week ? |
| 26 | So what was it that had made him go , but a furtive , half-acknowledged sense that not to have done so would have been like turning one 's back on the Crucifixion , that here perhaps at last was the litmus which might determine the validity of his readopted faith ? |
| 27 | Hayling would take over as managing editor until somebody else could be found — he 'd done well enough on last year 's dummy . |
| 28 | Another twenty minutes , he thought , then perhaps at last they might have some answers . |
| 29 | He reviewed Pooley 's Flight Guide Europe pretty carefully in last November 's Pilot . |
| 30 | They may have to jump again and again before at last they land in the pools at the head of the falls and can continue on their journey . |